Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson's critically acclaimed
translations of Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and The Collected
Stories of Machado de Assis introduced a new generation of readers to
one of Brazil's most groundbreaking authors. Hailed as "the greatest
writer ever produced in Latin America" (Susan Sontag), Machado's genius
is on full display in this fresh translation of the 1899 classic Dom
Casmurro. In his supposed memoir, Bento Santiago, an engaging yet
unreliable narrator, suspects his wife, Capitu, of having an affair with
his closest friend. Withdrawn and obsessive, our antihero mines the
origins of their love story: from childhood neighbors playing innocently
in the backyard to his brief spell in a seminary to marriage and the
birth of their child--whom, he fears, does not resemble him. A gripping
domestic drama brimming with Machado's signature humor, this is another
stunningly modern tale from the progenitor of twentieth-century fiction.